Describes a teaching unit in non-objective art for high school students to help them better understand modern art. (GB)

Article is a demonstration lesson in clay modeling techniques. (GB)

A blind student teacher helps fifth graders to learn the value and beauty of texture when he visits their art class. (GB)

Author stresses the need to communicate the values that gave meaning to our forbearers in order to understand more precisely the way we should go, in order to name who we will become. (Author)

Meaningful question and answers on art motivate seventh and eighth grade students. (DS)

Author intends to design ways to promote understanding of specified concepts through the manipulation of material and ideas. (Author)

Pleads for funds to expand art activities in schools. (DS)

Seventh grade students experiment with light as an art medium. (DS)

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Creative art. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has the following main sections--an introduction to art education, elementary art programs, junior high art program, senior high art program, appendixes (supplies and equipment, audio-visual materials, exhibits, book and periodicals, and glossary).…

Requiring basic sequential arts education for all K-12 students is the primary recommendation of this report, which was written to fulfill a congressional mandate to determine the current state of U.S. arts education programs. Based primarily on two surveys, "Arts, Education, and the States," and "Public School District Policies and…

The National Instructional Television Center provides this guide for teachers whose students will be viewing the Images and Things series. The series, composed of 30 films of 20 minutes each, directs attention to the aesthetic and humanistic aspects of art and seeks to help children develop a sense of art appreciation and an ability for art…

Designed to offer practical and flexible suggestions, this curriculum guide presents art teaching methods for instructing K-6 students in drawing techniques. Information in the guide is presented by grade level and further subdivided into sections on: (1) materials needed; (2) suggested topics; (3) motivation and guidance; (4) activities; and (5)…

Reviews the place of creativity in the two major orientations of art education: (1) creative self-expression; and (2) discipline-based art education (DBAE). Asserts that critics of DBAE argue that it is dry and does not allow for creative expression. Rejects this notion and claims that properly implemented DBAE produces intellectual and emotional…